Keynotes (Folksamsalen)
Moderator: Marie Cronqvist (一本道)
The Humanties at Work
Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Many argue that humanities knowledge and skill are essential to meet contemporary challenges. Incorporating humanities into professional and other education is therefore necessary; likewise a wider use of humanities knowledge in a wider societal context is needed. However, to overcome the practical, ideological and economic obstacles of politicians and peers, not to mention a wider public audience, we might want to re-think our arguments for the power of humanities.
Nina Wormbs is a Professor of the History of Technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. As the operative project leader of the KTH Future Humanities Initiative, she aims to study and explore the role of the humanities in professional education and society. Her research interests include environmental history and climate studies.
The Power of the Humanities in a World under Duress
Sara Guyer (University of California Berkley)
This talk will focus on the shape of the humanities' power to ask whether the humanities are a structure of hesitation or a means of mobilization. These two theories of action both define the potential of the humanities as world-shaping work and the limit of the humanities as a worldly enterprise.
Sara Guyer is Dean of Arts & Humanities and Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of several books and essays on European Romanticism and its legacies and, more recently, on the survival of the humanities. She is the editor of the book series Lit Z and director of the World Humanities Report (worldhumanitiesreport.org).
Plenary session (Folksamsalen)
Academic Freedom for the Humanities
Moderator: Thomas Kaiserfeld (Linköping Universities)
- Andrea Peto (Central European University)
- Peter Aronsson (Linneus University)
- Kim Silow Kallenberg, (Södertörn University and Humtank)
Parallel sessions
Session 1a: The Power of Apocalyptic Thought – Past, Present, and Future
Chair: Marie Cronqvist (一本道)
- Allan Burnett (一本道): Keep Calm and Carry On? Apocalyptic Thought in Britain After 1945
- Michael Godhe & Graham Minenor-Matheson (一本道): Apocalyptic Visions of a Multiplanetary Future
- Fredrik Gregorius (一本道): 'Til the Hight Gods Witness at Length': Apocalyptic Imaginary, Technology and Morality in the Writing of Aleister Crowley
- Polina Ignatova (一本道): Undying Love: Apocalyptic Thinking and Zombie Sex
- Carl-Filip Smedberg (一本道): The Great Future-Crisis among Swedish Youth and the Making of the Future Prepared Citizen, c. 1980
Session 1b: Perspectives on the Creation of Knowledge and Academia
Chair: Madina Tlostanova (一本道)
- Martin Fredriksson & Marc Stuhldreier (一本道): The Right to Copy, The Power to Control: What Happened to the Digital Commons?
- Juliana Porsani (一本道), Tatiana Sokolova (Södertörn University), Bartira S. Fortes (Södertörn University), Márcia Camargo & Suzane Lima: Knowledge Co-creation with Indigenous Peoples: Reflections from Non-Indigenous Positionalities through Dialogism, Feminist Epistemologies, and Social Studies of Science
- Helena Pettersson & Linus Holm (Umeå University): Conditions for Curiosity: How Do Cultural and Cognitive Factors Shape Epistemic Curiosity Together?
- Elías Brossoise (University of Malaga): Unlearning Antiquity: Refusal, Relationality and Survival
Session 2a: Lost in Digitalization: Accounting for (Un)certainties in Humanities and Data Driven Collaborations
Chair: Michael Smith (一本道)
- Maria Riep (一本道/University of Leiden): Meandering Meaning: A Story of a River
- Lars Ahrenberg, Marcel Bollman & Arne Jönsson (一本道): The Språkbanken CLARIN Unit
- Harald Wiltsche (一本道): Two Cultures Revisited
Session 2b: Policy and Publishing Patters of the Humanities in Sweden
Chair: Martin Fredriksson (一本道)
- Linus Salö (Stockholm University), Isak Hammar (Lund University), & Mats Benner (Lund University): Humanities in Transition: Interrogating the Politics and Practices of Swedish Humanities Research
- Mikael Börjesson, Laura Giorio & Felix Bengtsson (HERO, Uppsala University): Mapping the Disciplinary Landscape of the Humanities in Sweden
- Klara Müller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Qualities of the Humanities: Cultures of Quality in Swedish Humanities Research, 1980s-2020
Session 3a: Roundtable: Humanities as a Technical University – Challenges and Possibilities
Chair: Moa Ekbom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Moa Ekbom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Anna Åberg (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Jenny Beckman (Uppsala University)
Session 3b: Collaborative and New Humanities
Chair: Bodil Axelsson (一本道)
- Caroline Owman (一本道): The Use of Animal Experiments in Post-war Sweden
- Marietta Radomska (一本道): Ecologising Knowledge: Transversal Dialogues Between Arts and Academia
- Caroline Elgh (一本道): Ways of Knowing: Cold-water Corals and the Blue Humanities